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6 msgcmp - compare message catalog and template
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9 msgcmp [OPTION] def.po ref.pot
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12 Compare two Uniforum style .po files to check that both contain the
13 same set of msgid strings. The def.po file is an existing PO file with
14 the translations. The ref.pot file is the last created PO file, or a
15 PO Template file (generally created by xgettext). This is useful for
16 checking that you have translated each and every message in your pro‐
17 gram. Where an exact match cannot be found, fuzzy matching is used to
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23 Input file location:
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30 add DIRECTORY to list for input files search
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49 Informative output:
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57 Written by Peter Miller.
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60 Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.
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63 Copyright © 1995-1998, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
64 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
65 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
66 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
67 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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70 The full documentation for msgcmp is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
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80GNU gettext-tools 0.17 November 2007 MSGCMP(1)